Emissions trading challenges the management of companies in an entirely new manner: Not only does it, like other market-based environmental policy instruments, allow for a bigger flexibility in management decisions concerning emission issues. More importantly, it shifts the mode of governance of...

Die Umweltpolitik spielt bei der Entstehung vieler neuer Technologien eine herausragende Rolle. Sie korrigiert nicht nur ein Marktversagen, sondern nimmt auch explizit Einfluss auf das Ausmaß und die Richtung von Innovationen. Die vorliegende Arbeit nimmt sich dieser Beziehung zwischen...

On March 12, 2008 the German Federal Environment Agency and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety held a meeting of experts entitled “Eco-Innovation, International Trade, WTO and Climate: Key Issues for an ecological industrial policy”. At...

"This book examines the economic and political aspects of green trading and energy use from a global perspective. It also highlights the issues related to carbon trading, carbon credit, diplomatic conflicts in implementing environmental policies, energy use and energy efficiency, and the impact...